>> Where "harder" means the gap between top programs and top human players >> is bigger, are there any games harder than go? Including games of >> imperfect information, multi-player games, single-player puzzle games. > > Poetry contests?
I caught the smiley, but if you can define the rules (such that a mechanical referee can decide the winner, as in all games from go to poker to scrabble) then I guess the computer would be strong [1]. Thanks for the Arimaa and Havannah suggestions; I'd not heard of Havannah before. I see both have bets by humans that they'll not be beaten any time soon. David, is MCTS likely to be useful for Arimaa? Darren [1]: Though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble#Computer_players is ambiguous about if computer scrabble players are stronger than human players or not. -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic open source dictionary/semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
